Beet the Vandel Buster – The Sacrifice (V. 1/Animé TV)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: B
In the
dark century demons and dark sorcery known as Vandel cover the lands, causing
pain, terror and destruction, bring about the 'End Days'. But standing between the demons and the destruction
of mankind is a group of people who refuse to give into fate, these are the
Vandel Busters. The story however starts
with a young boy named Beet. Beet admires and aspires to become like the
strongest Vandel Busters.
This is a
fairly strait forward and standard anime, filled with the standard young boy to
be hero, growing and challenging his own future and potential. Along the way he
meets friends and learns there is more to a fight than just appearances. Watching the intro, and the first couple
episodes you can see it will have the standard characters that will join hero
of the series. The childhood friend, the
best friend... it sets up for the potential for both action and comedy. A young hero to be guided by various wisdoms
from friends constantly pulling him out of the fire.
What is
unique is the influence of 'levels' the characters actually use to increase
their strength and abilities as they fight monsters, usually this is know more
in video games, but in this case it is in the anime. Only complaint is the subtitling is a little
overly large and a bit off at times, but once you got into it you hardly
noticed it anymore.
Episode
1: The Dream Catcher
Beet as a
child desires to become like his childhood heroes the Zenon Squad, headstrong
signs up to become a Vandel Buster. Only
thing is he has no idea how to fight... and he challenges a demon that is too
powerful for him.
Episode
2: Sacrifice
Beet
after being rescued from his first battle, ends up as his fault the Zenon Squad
being defeated. As their last heroic
deed the Zenon Squad sacrifices their life energies into their weapons, Saiga,
to save Beet.
Episode
3: Bog of the Dead
Three
years have passed, Beet growing along with Poala the young busters has been
defending the village from the monsters faces the leader of the deadly marshes.
Episode
4: The Burning Lance
Poala
worried about Beet not being experienced enough and challenging monsters too
powerful for him is surprise that Beet can summon the Burning Lance from the
fallen Zenon Squad member, but as danger increase does Beet have any other
surprises?
The 1.33
X 1 image is more colorful than usual, while the sound is a surprisingly weak
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. There are no
extras.
- Ricky Chiang
